Today, there is new news from the free APP download rankings of the Apple App Store. Tencent Yuanbao has successfully surpassed Doubao, rising to the second position on the China regional chart, second only to the consistently top-ranked DeepSeek. This achievement is attributed to a major update that Tencent Yuanbao underwent recently. On February 13th, Tencent Yuanbao officially integrated the full-version Deepseek - R1 model, which provides users with unprecedented convenience upon opening Tencent Yuanbao and entering the chat interface.

Recently, OpenAI celebrated the one-year anniversary of the release of its text-to-video model, Sora. To commemorate this milestone, OpenAI has launched a remastered version of the animated short film 'Critterz'. This short film uniquely showcases Sora's astonishing video generation capabilities. It presents a side-by-side comparison, with the original 'Critterz' on the left and a brand new version entirely generated by Sora on the right. Viewers can intuitively feel Sora's powerful strength and realistic effects in video generation.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited India this week, emphasizing the importance of India as the company's second largest market. It was reported that OpenAI's user base in India has doubled in the past year. During this visit, Altman met with India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw and is expected to meet with Prime Minister Modi. At a discussion hosted by OpenAI, Altman praised India's development potential in the AI sector.

Recently, WeChat's official editing tool 'Instant Editing' has integrated various practical AI functions, making users' video creation more efficient. The new version of 'Instant Editing' adds three features: 'Public Account to Video', 'AI Comic Video', and 'Live Shopping Video', with a rich selection of templates for users to choose from. The 'Public Account to Video' feature allows users to directly convert articles from WeChat public accounts into videos. Users only need to click 'Public Account to Video', input the public account link, and the system will automatically recognize the content of the article.

Recently, the VITA-MLLM team announced the launch of VITA-1.5, an upgraded version based on VITA-1.0, aimed at enhancing the real-time and accuracy of multimodal interaction. VITA-1.5 not only supports English and Chinese but also achieves significant improvements in multiple performance metrics, providing users with a smoother interaction experience. In VITA-1.5, the interaction delay has been greatly reduced from 4 seconds to just 1.5 seconds, making it almost imperceptible for users during voice interactions.

According to Sina Technology, Baidu Wenku's AI functionality has achieved remarkable results worldwide. As of the end of December, the monthly active users (MAU) of Baidu Wenku's AI function have surpassed 90 million, second only to ChatGPT's 310 million, ranking second globally. Since the comprehensive restructuring of Baidu Wenku, over 100 new features have been launched, including Smart PPT, Smart Documents, Research Reports, and AI Universal Search. The introduction of these features has greatly enhanced user experience and work efficiency, attracting a large number of users.

Aishi Technology announces the official launch of PixVerse version 3.5, which brings significant performance improvements and new features. The new version of PixVerse can generate videos in as fast as 5 seconds, significantly enhancing motion control, providing users with a smoother and more precise video generation experience. Additionally, version 3.5 has made significant improvements to anime effects, supporting easy switching between various styles to meet the personalized needs of different users.

On Thursday local time in the U.S., ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI's API services for developers encountered another outage, lasting over four hours. OpenAI reported a significant disruption starting at 11 AM (all times referenced in this article are local to the U.S.), but by 3:16 PM, services were gradually being restored. Regular users of ChatGPT might recall that there was also an outage earlier this month. On its status page, OpenAI indicated that this major disruption was caused by issues with its upstream provider.

In the rapid evolution of the digital economy, payment models are undergoing a quiet revolution. Traditional subscription models are giving way to more flexible pay-per-use models, with artificial intelligence platforms becoming key drivers of this revolution. Emerging platforms like Stripe and Bolt.new are redefining the possibilities of micropayments. By introducing usage-based billing systems and token economic models, they are breaking traditional payment barriers and creating a new transactional ecosystem for AI services. Image Source Note: Image generated by AI, image licensed through service provider Midjo.